For what its worth....... is it really worth it..?

Artist Dillon Marsh has created these photographs of mines in South Africa and added a small element of CG to each one. This element represents the 'real' amount of worth each of these scars on the landscape, and the local population, is really worth in terms of resources that have been taken from that area.

Blue Mine, Springbok (1852 to 1912) 3,535 tonnes of copper extracted.

West O'okiep Mine, Okiep (1862 to the early 1970s) Over 500m deep, 284,000 tonnes of copper extracted.

Nababeep South Mine, Nababeep (1882 to 2000) Over 500m deep, 302,791.65 tonnes of copper extracted

Tweefontein Mine, Concordia (1887 to 1904) Over 100m deep, 38,747.7 tonnes of copper extracted

Jubilee Mine, Concordia (1971 to 1973) Over 100m deep, 6,500 tonnes of copper extracted

I've always known that mining finds very small amounts of the elements it is searching for but when you see it visualised like this it really brings it home! Imagine what its like in a gold or diamond mine......

Check out more of his photographs here.